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...worst thugs will face a reckoning in court. "To me, he really seems like a Don Quixote figure," says Ted Braun, director of Darfur Now. "He's one man, working alone, taking on the world with a great vision of what he can do, but without a lot of overt backing." If that bothers Moreno-Ocampo, he doesn't show it. Finishing his coffee, he tells me that the ICC is helping to establish a new approach to international relations, in which states interact "on the basis of laws, not on the concept of friends and enemies. There are still...
...poem's title refers to POWs on both sides of the Iran-Iraq war. But besides this and one sardonic, flippant reference to U.N. resolutions in "A Prism; Wet With Wars" - the collection's puffed-up opener, which is swollen with images of "imminent wreckage" - there is no overt reference to politics and no bitter outcry against George W. Bush or Bush's father (five of the poems were written from 1989 to 1991). There is no assault on the current Iraqi administration either...
...path that guarantees at couldn’t recruit the strongest junior faculty if it was widely thought that they had no chance for tenure,” says Casey, although he adds that “now we’re much more overt about...
...even spent two weeks at Harvard. They don’t know that people don’t wear Harvard t-shirts unless they got them for free, that our rivalry with Yale is more a once-a-year event than a way of life, and that upperclassmen find overt displays of excitement confusing, not contagious. But what does it mean that the people who know Harvard the least seem to love it the best? One can counter by arguing that the senior’s love for Harvard is more restrained and more refined, better allowing...
...obvious anger or weary cynicism. It is a kind of acceptance that does not vitiate his desire to see justice done. This is, I think, a great performance by one of the great movie minimalists. And Haggis has provided him with a perfectly matched context, recording without overt commentary the strip-joint, hooker-ridden town that exists to serve the needs of soldiers too young for thought to govern appetites, the kind of place where a convenience store clerk cheerfully works topless. Is the movie an analogy of Iraq? Not perfectly, but well enough. Does it say something about contemporary...